Usually means: Loud, harsh, and grating sound.
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  1. stridency: Merriam-Webster
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  3. stridency: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. stridency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. Stridency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. stridency: Rhymezone
  11. stridency: FreeDictionary.org
  12. stridency: Mnemonic Dictionary
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▸ noun:  The quality of being strident.

Similar:
stridence, shrillness, stridulousness, strenuosity, bristliness, strainedness, stertorousness, strangth, stentoriousness, stingingness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, softness, mellowness, tranquility

Types:
shrill, piercing, ear-splitting, high-pitched, loud, more...

Adjectives:
new, certain, such, very, greater, ideological, occasional, less, political, sudden, more

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Similar:
stridence, shrillness, stridulousness, strenuosity, bristliness, strainedness, stertorousness, strangth, stentoriousness, stingingness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, softness, mellowness, tranquility

Types:
shrill, piercing, ear-splitting, high-pitched, loud, more...

Adjectives:
new, certain, such, very, greater, ideological, occasional, less, political, sudden, more



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